![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ll give you $100,000 to burst into flames,” he told one Dragons’ Den candidate. While none of O’Leary’s fellow TV tycoons come off as exactly warm and fuzzy, O’Leary is in a vituperative class by himself. Aside from Dragons’ Den, the sixth season of which launches in October, O’Leary co-stars on Mark Burnett’s Shark Tank, the American version of the show that sees hopeful business people pitching to a panel of wealthy investors. “Your valuation is insane!” O’Leary howls at a parade of hapless entrepreneurs who cower on the set of the hit CBC reality series. O’Leary has no problem identifying the real demons that plague his current life: high taxes, government regulation, and-woe to them-fools who seek investment with no record of sales. “He was just another officer,” O’Leary says now. ![]() In 1963, while living in Cambodia for a year with his stepfather, he had the dubious honour of meeting future Cambodian mass murderer Pol Pot, then a military assistant to Prince Sihanouk, at a reception. Secondly, he knows who the real bad guys in this world are. ![]() First off, the balding bulldog of CBC Television’s Dragons’ Den does not admit that villainy is his business. Don’t try comparing Kevin O’Leary to the great villains of this world. ![]()
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